Dr. David G. Koch Profile

Dr. David G. Koch

Astrophysicist, Deputy Principal Investigator at NASA Ames Research Ctr

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Proceedings Article | 12 October 2004 Paper

Overview and status of the Kepler Mission

David Koch, William Borucki, Edward Dunham, John Geary, Ronald Gilliland, Jon Jenkins, David Latham, Eric Bachtell, Dan Berry, William Deininger, Riley Duren, Thomas Gautier, Ladd Gillis, David Mayer, Chris Miller, Dan Shafer, Charles Sobeck, Chris Stewart, Michael Weiss

Proceedings Volume 5487, (2004) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.552346

KEYWORDS: Stars, Planets, Space operations, Photometry, Charge-coupled devices, Data centers, System on a chip, Aerospace engineering, Space telescopes, Signal to noise ratio

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Proceedings Article | 16 September 2004 Paper

Systems engineering for the Kepler Mission: a search for terrestrial planets

Riley Duren, Karen Dragon, Stephen Gunter, Thomas Gautier, Eric Bachtell, Daniel Peters, Adam Harvey, Alan Enos, David Koch, William Borucki, Charles Sobeck, David Mayer, Jon Jenkins, Rick Thompson

Proceedings Volume 5497, (2004) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.550276

KEYWORDS: Systems engineering, Stars, Performance modeling, Space operations, Photometry, Signal to noise ratio, Data modeling, Data acquisition, Planets, Error analysis

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Proceedings Article | 24 February 2003 Paper

The Kepler mission's focal plane

Edward Dunham, John Geary, Robert Philbrick, Christopher Stewart, David Koch

Proceedings Volume 4854, (2003) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.460265

KEYWORDS: Charge-coupled devices, Staring arrays, Sensors, Stars, Photometry, CCD image sensors, Electronics, Planets, Space operations, Point spread functions

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Proceedings Article | 24 February 2003 Paper

The Kepler mission: a wide-field-of-view photometer designed to determine the frequency of Earth-size planets around solar-like stars

William Borucki, David Koch, Jack Lissauer, Gibor Basri, John Caldwell, William Cochran, Edward Dunham, John Geary, David Latham, Ronald Gilliland, Douglas Caldwell, Jon Jenkins, Yoji Kondo

Proceedings Volume 4854, (2003) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.460266

KEYWORDS: Planets, Stars, Photometry, Signal to noise ratio, Point spread functions, Planetary systems, Space operations, Data archive systems, Space telescopes, Sun

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Proceedings Article | 28 July 2000 Paper

CCD photometry tests for a mission to detect Earth-sized planets in the extended solar neighborhood

David Koch, William Borucki, Edward Dunham, Jon Jenkins, Larry Webster, Fred Witteborn

Proceedings Volume 4013, (2000) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.394034

KEYWORDS: Stars, Charge-coupled devices, Planets, Photometry, Point spread functions, Space operations, Signal to noise ratio, Interference (communication), Cameras, Received signal strength

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Proceedings Article | 28 July 2000 Paper

Processing CCD images to detect transits of Earth-sized planets: maximizing sensitivity while achieving reasonable downlink requirements

Jon Jenkins, Fred Witteborn, David Koch, Edward Dunham, William Borucki, Todd Updike, Mark Skinner, Steven Jordan

Proceedings Volume 4013, (2000) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.394035

KEYWORDS: Stars, Photometry, Signal to noise ratio, Space operations, Charge-coupled devices, Point spread functions, Numerical simulations, Planets, Image processing, Control systems

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Proceedings Article | 28 August 1998 Paper

Kepler: a space mission to detect earth-class exoplanets

David Koch, William Borucki, Larry Webster, Edward Dunham, Jon Jenkins, John Marriott, Harold Reitsema

Proceedings Volume 3356, (1998) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.324482

KEYWORDS: Planets, Stars, Photometry, Space operations, Charge-coupled devices, Exoplanets, Analog electronics, Sun, Signal to noise ratio, Planetary systems

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Proceedings Article | 14 September 1994 Paper

Submillimeter Wave Astronomy Satellite

Volker Tolls, Gary Melnick, Alexander Dalgarno, Giovanni Fazio, John Stauffer, Patrick Thaddeus, Neal Erickson, Ron Snell, Paul Goldsmith, Martin Harwit, David Hollenbach, David Koch, David Neufeld, Rudolf Schieder, Gisbert Winnewisser

Proceedings Volume 2268, (1994) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.185853

KEYWORDS: Clouds, Receivers, Oxygen, Mirrors, Carbon, Adaptive optics, Chemistry, Stars, Satellites, Spectroscopy

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